Building what doesn't exist yet.
Music production software hasn't fundamentally changed in 20 years. The same instruments get repackaged. The same workflows get ported to new platforms.
Desktop DAWs
Powerful but expensive, bloated, and stagnant. Hundreds of dollars upfront. Gigabytes of downloads. The same piano roll from 2005. Individual instrument plugins sold separately.
Web DAWs
Accessible but shallow. 2–3 basic synths, limited effects, no real automation worth using. They compromised on depth to run in a browser. We didn't.
AI Music Generators
Type a prompt, get a song. Your name isn't on it. You didn't make it. You can't edit the individual tracks. It's content generation — not music creation.
Onomo exists because there's room for something genuinely new. Not a cheaper version of what exists. Not a simpler version. A professional browser DAW built from the ground up with today's technology.
Professional DAW licenses cost hundreds of dollars. The average monthly income in Nigeria is around $400. In Brazil around $600. In much of the world a DAW license isn't an inconvenience — it's a month's wages.
Almost all of us started making music as kids. A $300 license at 15 is a completely different goalpost than for a 25-year-old production vet. The producers making the music dominating global charts right now are being asked to pay that just to start.
That's a wall. It's been there so long nobody in the industry talks about it anymore.
Onomo is free because it has to be.
20 synthesizers written from scratch.
Every synthesis paradigm — subtractive, FM, wavetable, granular, physical modeling, formant, phase distortion, spectral, string machine, resonator, vocal synthesis, synthesized piano and more. Custom DSP. Not presets. Not wrappers. Original instruments.
7 synthesized drum engines.
Dedicated kick, snare, clap, hat, open hat, 808, and perc engines. Full synthesis parameters. Not sample playback. Design from scratch or grab from the 1,000+ factory sounds — every one synthesized here.
Slide notes with per-node control.
Multi-node pitch curves where each node has its own velocity curve and each segment can have independent LFO modulation. Mid-clip glide that no other browser DAW has implemented.
Spatial ribbon — per-note stereo placement.
Every note can have its own position in the stereo field. Draw pan and width automation per-note with LFO modulation. No other DAW — web or desktop — does this at the note level.
No creative tools behind paywalls.
Every synth engine, every drum engine, every effect — included on all plans. Upgrades are for storage and AI credits. Never for the instruments.
Airess — why she's different.
Airess has never heard a single song. Not trained on artist catalogues. Doesn't know what any artist sounds like. There is not one copyrighted recording anywhere inside her.
What she knows is music theory — the publicly documented building blocks that belong to everyone — and every parameter of every instrument in Onomo.
She doesn't generate audio. Not one waveform. She makes production decisions in your actual session — MIDI patterns, synth parameters, arrangement structure. Everything she touches is editable. Every decision is reversible.
Take Airess away and Onomo is still a complete professional DAW. Take the AI away from most new music tools and there's almost nothing left. That's the difference.
Every synth uses SharedArrayBuffer ring buffers for lock-free note communication — zero GC pauses during playback.
Every effect has both an AudioWorklet processor AND an offline renderer — what you hear during playback is exactly what you export.
Multi-agent routing across harmony, drum programming, sound design, mixing, and arrangement domains.
AI context injection exceeds 50,000 tokens. The system reads your full project state — every track, every note, every automation curve — before generating anything.
This is beta. The beatmaker foundation is complete — trap, lo-fi, R&B, EDM, hip hop. Recording workflows for vocalists and bands are coming. Collaborative sessions are coming. Mobile is coming.
Honest warning: DSP architecture across 20 synthesizers is still being refined. Project compatibility between beta and final release isn't guaranteed. Export your stems. Treat beta sessions as sketches. The upside — you help decide what the final architecture sounds like.
This is my official invite.
Try it. Break it. Tell me what's wrong. Tell me what you'd build if it were yours.
I've been building this alone for 100 days. The roadmap is still being written and I want the people who actually live in DAWs to help write it.
The one year mark of this project is going to look like something else entirely. I want the people who find it now to be part of why.
Made with ♥ in ATL